I went on to get my instrument ticket along with a multi engine at Hawthorne Airport.

As I recall, Rose advertised acrobatic training which scared me a bit.

I was much more comfortable level, low and slow.

I hated practicing stalls, which the sob instructor I had insisted on.

Pointing the nose up until you fall out of the sky and having to recover is no picnic.

As an aside, when I first contacted Security Aviation they asked me If
was a good driver. I told them that I was not too bad. (I was driving a new Trans-Am at the time) They responded that hot rodders make the worst pilots.

I talked to a pilot that was in Reno for the air races and was near the crash site. He told me that when the plane tore into the crowd arms, legs, heads went flying everywhere. He said the grandstands were littered with body parts. Nine killed and fifty-five still in the hospital, some with missing limbs.

He said that this event is probably history as it will bankrupt the organization and they will never get insurance again.

These types of air shows are almost exclusively White so it's a slam dunk those killed or injured were White.

Single Engine Land with complex and high performance ratings, and Single Engine Seaplane. Gotta get my IFR someday. Its always enjoyable to hear "Traffic overtaking such and such" and that being my cessna 210 doing the overtaking heh.

With the fuel prices I've been hesitant for much joy riding or $100 (now like $400) hamburgers. But if I need to zoom somewhere for work theres nothing better.

Single Engine Land with complex and high performance ratings, and Single Engine Seaplane. Gotta get my IFR someday. Its always enjoyable to hear "Traffic overtaking such and such" and that being my cessna 210 doing the overtaking heh.

With the fuel prices I've been hesitant for much joy riding or $100 (now like $400) hamburgers. But if I need to zoom somewhere for work theres nothing better.

At Santa Monica, most students are grounded being so near the beach on foggy/low cloud days, unless of course their instructor is IFR rated and they practice above the clouds.

I once traveled solo to Palomar, landed and had lunch there. In the meantime, the fog rolled in and I had to climb out completely blind except for instruments.

That's not something that someone with 20 or so hours is entirely comfortable with.

Thats got to be a bummer, I've had to spend a few nights, or waiting till the fog burned off on the coast at eureka or bay area.

Probably the most stressing situations are comming in at night and the fog/clouds blocking the area. I always set my alt several hundred feet above the largest land mark, went to where I thought the city was, and spun circles lowering altitude until I could get a fix on the lights, and duck through the clouds that way. ATC let me do that in oakland as well above the mormon temple there, but I bet they wont allow that anymore.

I did flight school in slo so I was spoiled, not a bad day, or "today is ground school due to condition." hah.